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What do readers say about The Turn of the Screw?
gothic ghost story novella deep, engaging, suspenseful haunted house story overdone and wordyA young governess is employed to look after two orphaned children in a grand country house. Isolated and inexperienced, she is at first charmed by her young charges but gradually she suspects that they may not be as innocent as they seem. And do the ... More details on The Turn of the Screw
My counselor couldn't read! I winced at my mistake, which I attenuated as I could, and opened my letter again to repeat it to her; then, faltering in the act and folding it up once more, I put it back...
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What do readers say about Daughter of the Blood?
very intricately woven plot dark and sensual great characters. strong world-building wonderfully witty touchIn the first novel in New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop's beloved Black Jewels Trilogy, a race of witches and warlocks whose power is channeled through magical jewels will meet their once and future queen…
Seven hundred years ago, a Blac... More details on Daughter of the Blood
Lucivar Yaslana, the Eyrien half-breed, watched the guards drag the sobbing man to the boat. He felt no sympathy for the condemned man who had led the aborted slave revolt. In the Territory called Pru...
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What do readers say about One Day?
engaging and interesting st swithin's day touching and funny sad, sad bookNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring ANNE HATHAWAY and JIM STURGESS
It's 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that rela... More details on One Day
They lay in silence for a moment, bodies curled around each other in the single bed, then both began to laugh in low, predawn voices. ‘Can’t believe I just said that,’ she groaned. ‘Sounds a bit corny...
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What do readers say about Munich?
quite the page-turner you are there through alternating narratives a historical thrillerFrom the best-selling author of V2 and Fatherland-a WWII-era spy thriller set against the backdrop of the fateful Munich Conference of September 1938. Soon to be a Netflix film.
With this electrifying novel about treason and conscience, loyalty and b... More details on Munich
Shortly before one o’clock on the afternoon of Tuesday 27 September 1938, Mr Hugh Legat of His Majesty’s Diplomatic Service was shown to his table beside one of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the Rit...
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What do readers say about The Duke Who Didn't?
historical, fluffy, cute low-angst new read a book-length grovel a hallmark filmMiss Chloe Fong has plans for her life, lists for her days, and absolutely no time for nonsense. Three years ago, she told her childhood sweetheart that he could talk to her once he planned to be serious. He disappeared that very night.Except now he'... More details on The Duke Who Didn't
The morning air was still cold enough to sink into her lungs. The low golden glow of the sun, tipping over the horizon, threatened to burn the fog away. But in this luminous hour when day broke, with ...
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What do readers say about Dragonfly in Amber?
rambling and detail true historical fiction the shocking ending a readable romanceNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The second book in Diana Gabaldon's acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series. Don't miss the new Outlander novel, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, available November 23!
"A triumph! A powerful tale... More details on Dragonfly in Amber
The study where he stood was lined on three sides by bookshelves, every one crammed past bursting point. Paperback mystery novels lay in bright, tatty piles in front of calf-bound tomes, jammed cheek ...
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What do readers say about The Night Watch?
reading a narrative poem a good tale fine literary novel some gay people"[A] wonderful novel…Waters is almost Dickensian in her wealth of description and depth of character."-Chicago Tribune
Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked-out streets, illicit partying, and sexual adventure, to end with its begi... More details on The Night Watch
So this, said Kay to herself, is the sort of person you’ve become: a person whose clocks and wrist-watches have stopped, and who tells the time, instead, by the particular kind of cripple arriving at ...
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What do readers say about Burr?
true historical fiction dense and turgid scandalous gossip about celebrities humorous and sarcasticFor readers who can't get enough of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, Gore Vidal's stunning novel about Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel-and who served as a successful, if often feared, statesman of our fledgling nation. ... More details on Burr
SHORTLY BEFORE MIDNIGHT, July 1, 1833, Colonel Aaron Burr, aged seventy-seven, married Eliza Jumel, born Bowen fifty-eight years ago (more likely sixty-five but remember: she is prone to litigation!)....
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What do readers say about Carnegie's Maid?
historical fiction and fiction speculative historical fiction light romance book enjoyable historic fictionFrom the author of The Other Einstein, the mesmerizing tale of what kind of woman could have inspired an American dynasty.
Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's gr... More details on Carnegie's Maid
I shouldn’t be here. Cecelia or Eliza could have been swaying on this stinking vessel instead of me. It was their right—Eliza’s duty anyway, as the eldest daughter—to make the voyage and take the chan...
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What do readers say about The Pale Blue Eye?
a short book noir detective novel true historical fiction pure 19th century prose"Shockingly clever and devoutly unsentimental...reads like a lost classic. Bayard reinvigorates historical fiction."- New York Times Book Review
An ingenious tale of murder and revenge at West Point, featuring a retired detective and a young cadet n... More details on The Pale Blue Eye
I mention it because it puts things in a certain perspective. My fingers, for instance, have become interesting to me of late. Also the lowermost slat in the Venetian blinds, a bit askew. And outside ...
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